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ARTIST Various TITLE The Sun Blues Box Blues, R&B And Gospel Music In Memphis 1950-1958 LABEL Bear Family Productions CATALOG # BCD 17310 PRICE-CODE JK EAN-CODE ÇxDTRBAMy173103z

FORMAT 10-CD Box-Set (LP-size) with 184-page hardcover book GENRE Blues / R&B TRACKS 307 PLAYING TIME 830:16

SUN RECORDS AT 60: BEAR FAMILY AT 38

Between 1950 and 1960, SUN RECORDS founder Sam Phillips discovered and produced B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Ike Tur- ner, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich and Roy Orbison – artists who changed the way popular music was made. With a staff of no more than one or two people, he did this from a small store- front studio in Memphis, Tennessee.

Others who made their first recordings at SUN include Rufus Thomas, Bobby Bland, Junior Parker, Little Milton, Conway Twitty, Charley Pride and many more! In 1952, after producing one of the biggest pre-rock 'n' roll hits, Jackie Brenston's Rocket 88, Sam Phillips launched SUN RECORDS with one local release, and then folded the label for a year. In 1953, he relaunched SUN,releasing singles until he folded the label in 1968.

BEAR FAMILY has led the way in documenting Sam Phillips' incredible achievement with career- defining box sets on Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and definitive single or double CDs on every significant SUN artist. Plus, BEAR FAMILY has documented the original SUN singles in a series of six 4-CD sets… every single, A and B side, in original stunning mono!

Bear Family Records • Grenzweg 1 • 27729 Holste-Oldendorf • Germany www.bear-family.com BEAR FAMILY RECORDS TEL +49(0)4748 - 82 16 16 • FAX +49(0)4748 - 82 16 20 • E-MAIL [email protected] Exclusive Distribution of Exklusiv-Vertrieb von Bear Family Productions

WORTH THE WAIT!

Now, in conjunction with SUN's sixtieth anniversary, BEAR FAMILY is releasing three genre-defining box sets.

THE SUN BLUES BOX. Finally, the last word on the SUN and pre-SUN blues recordings! Nearly 30 years after the original Sun Blues Box was released on LP, it's back on CD with so much more than was on the original set. Recently discovered music from well-known artists … and incredible artifacts like Sam Phillips narrating a radio commercial for a West African herbalist who would soon be jailed for selling bogus patent medicine. Recordings produced by Phillips but issued on Chess, RPM, TRUMPET and other la- bels were unavailable in 1983, but are now included. Re- searcher Steve LaVere finally allowed the world to hear the SUN audio and see the SUN-related photos he collected back in the late 1960s. In fact, the entire blues research community came together to make this a once-in-a- lifetime blues experience!

So don't believe that the story of SUN RECORDS has been told until you hear a priceless audio fragment that might be SUN #176… the only SUN record that has never been heard, or seen the scrap of paper where Sam Phillips figured out his tiny income for 1952, or hear African- American gay nightclub singer Rudi Richardson sing rock 'n' roll! This is the story of the most lauded record label of all time told as only BEAR FAMILY can tell it! This is the story of ten years that changed the world of popular culture!

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VARIOUS ARTISTS The COMPLETE Sun Singles • Vol. 6 The COMPLETE Sun Singles • Vol. 1 4-CD Box-Set (LP-size) with 68-page book 4-CD Box-Set (LP-size) with 68-page book BCD 15806 DI • ISBN: 978-3-924787-39-4 BCD 15801 DI • ISBN: 978-3-89795-342-0

The COMPLETE Sun Singles • Vol. 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS Memphis Belles 4-CD Box-Set (LP-size) with 72-page book The Women Of Sun Records BCD 15802 DI • ISBN: 978-3-89795-343-7 6-CD Box-Set (LP-size) with 120-page book The COMPLETE Sun Singles • Vol. 3 BCD 16609 FK • ISBN: 978-3-89795-873-9 4-CD Box-Set (LP-size) with 68-page book BCD 15803 DI • ISBN: 978-3-89795-344-4 VARIOUS ARTISTS The COMPLETE Sun Singles • Vol. 4 Sun Ballads (1953 – 1957) 4-CD Box-Set (LP-size) with 68-page book 3-CD digipac with 92-page booklet BCD 15804 DI • ISBN: 978-3-89795-345-1 BCD 17213 CH • ISBN: 978-3-89916-592-0

The COMPLETE Sun Singles • Vol. 5 4-CD Box-Set (LP-size) with 68-page book VARIOUS ARTISTS BCD 15805 DI • ISBN: 978-3-89795-346-8 Sun Gospel CD with 36-page booklet BCD 16387 AH • ISBN: 978-3-89795-670-4

TRACK LISTING CD 1: DOWN SOUTH BLUES Lost John Hunter & his Blind Bats: Cool Down Mamma • Schoolboy • Y-M And V Blues • Boogie For Me Baby • Charlie Burse: Shorty The Barber • Joe Hill Louis: Boogie In The Park • Gotta Let You Go • 'Sleepy' John Estes: Registration Day Blues • Policy Man • Rats In My Kitchen • Runnin' Around • Doctor Ross & His Jump And Jive Boys: Doctor Ross Boogie • Country Clown • Cat Squirrel • Little Soldier Boy • Shake 'Em On Down • Down South Blues (aka Lacey Belle) • Texas Hop • L. B. Lawson And James Scott’s Blues Rockers: Can't Love Me And My Money Too • Flypaper Boogie • Got My Call Card • Scott's Boogie • William 'Tal- king Boy' Stewart: They Call Me Talking Boy • County Farm Blues • Forty-Four Blues • Rattlesnakin' Mama • Woodrow Adams & The Three Bs: Pretty Baby Blues • She's Done Come And Gone • If You Don't Want Me • Last Time • Train Time • Train Is Comin'

CD 2: EVERYBODY’S IN THE MOOD The Howlin' Wolf: Moanin' At Midnight • How Many More Years • Mr. Highway Man • My Troubles And Me • Getting Old And Grey • My Baby Walked Off • Everybody's In The Mood • Decoration Day Blues • Bluebird Blues • Well That's Alright • Come Back Home • Walter Horton: Little Walter's Instrumental • In The Mood • We All Gotta Go Sometime • West Winds Are Blowing • Little Walter's Boogie • 'Little Walker': Off The Wall • Jimmy DeBerry: Party Line Blues • Willie Nix: Midnight Showers Of Rain • Pri- son Bound Blues • Ridin' In The Moonlight • Take A Little Walk With Me • Henry Hill with Doctor Ross: That Ain't Right • Doc- tor Ross: Deep Down In The Ground • James Banister: Ain't Gonna Tell You No Lie • Dennis Binder: Love You, Love You Baby • Elven Parr & His In The Groove Boys: Baby Child • I'm A Good Man • In The Groove Rumba • Skin And Bones Woman

CD 3: REAL GONE ROCKETS Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats: Rocket 88 • Ike Turner & His Kings Of Rhythm: I'm Lonesome Baby • Heartbroken And Worried • B. B. King: B. B. Blues • She's Dynamite • Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats: Independent Woman • LOU SARGENT: Ridin' The Boogie • Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats: My Real Gone Rocket • Tuckered Out • Billy Love: Juiced • Rosco Gordon: Booted • L. J. Thomas & His Louisiana Playboys: Sam's Drag • Baby Take A Chance With Me • Billy 'Red' Love: Drop Top • It Ain't No More • Rosco Gordon: TModel Boogie • I Wade Through Muddy Water • Decorate The Counter • Rufus Thomas: Decorate The Coun- ter • Married Woman • Houston Stokes: You'll Be Sorry Someday • We're All Gonna Do Some Wrong • Walter 'Tang' Smith: Hi- Tone Mama • Every Monday Morning Blues • Billy Love: Early In The Morning • 'Tiny' Kennedy and Elmer The Disc Jockey Rooster: Early In The Morning, Baby • 'Tiny' Kennedy: Strange Kind Of Feeling • Blues Disease • Don't Lay This Job On Me • Sherman 'Blues' Johnson & His Clouds Of Joy: Hot Fish • Pretty Baby Blues • Unknown Artist, possibly with Rosco Gordon’s Band: Got Me AHorse And Wagon

CD 4: SELLING MY STUFF Jackie Boy & Little Walter: Selling My Whiskey (incomplete) • Johnny London – Alto Wizaard: Drivin Slow • Flat Tire • Walter Brad- ford & The Big City Four: Untitled Blues (incomplete) • Handy Jackson: Got My Application Baby • Trouble (Will Bring You Down) • Joe Hill Louis: We All Gotta Go Sometime • She May Be Yours (But She Comes To See Me Sometime) • Willie Nix – The Mem- phis Blues Boy: Seems Like A Million Years • Baker Shop Boogie • Jimmy DeBerry & Walter Horton (Jimmy & Walter): Easy • Jimmy DeBerry: Before Long • Rufus 'Hound Dog' Thomas Jr.: Bear Cat (The Answer To Hound Dog) • Walkin' In The Rain • D. A. Hunt: Greyhound Blues • Lonesome Old Jail • Big Memphis Marainey – Onzie Horne Combo: Call Me Anything (But Call Me) • Baby, No No! •Jimmy DeBerry: Take A Little Chance • Time Has Made A Change • Prisonaires: Baby Please • Just Walkin' In The Rain • Little Junior’s Blue Flames: Feelin' Good • Fussin' And Fightin' Blues - Rufus Thomas Jr.: Save That Money • Tiger Man (King of the Jungle) • Little Junior’s Blue Flames: Mystery Train • Love My Baby • Doctor Ross: Come Back Baby • Chicago Breakdown • Hot Shot Love: Wolf Call Boogie • Harmonica Jam

CD 5: LISTENABLE WAX FOR THE SOUTHERN MARKET Walter Bradford & The Big City Four: Reward For My Baby • Love For My Baby • Too Blue To Cry • L. C. Hubert & The Big City Four: Lucy Done Moved • Honeyboy Edwards: Sweet Home Chicago • Albert Williams: Rumble Chillen • Hoo Doo Man (Mem- phis Al) • Joe Hill Louis: When I Am Gone (She Treats Me Mean And Evil) (unedited) • Dorothy Mae • Keep Your Arms Around me • I'm A Poor Boy • She May Be Yours (Sweetest Gal In Town) • Hydramatic Woman • Tiger Man • Joe Hill Louis, Albert Wil- liams, probably Walter Horton, and unknown percussionist: Shine Boy • Mose Vinson: Mistreatin' Boogie • Worry You Off My Mind • Reap What You Sow • 44 Blues • Come See Me (aka My Love Has Gone) • Little Junior’s Blue Flames: Feelin' Bad • James Cotton: My Baby • Straighten Up Baby • Cotton Crop Blues • Hold Me In Your Arms • Pat Hare: Cheating And Lying Blues (aka I'm Gonna Murder My Baby) • Bonus Pay • Hot Shot Love: Harpin' On It • Houston Stokes: Blue And Lonesome • Baby's Gone And LeftMe•Kenneth Banks: High • Blue Man

CD 6: KINGS OF RHYTHM Raymond Hill: Long Gone Raymond • My Baby Left Me • I'm Back Pretty Baby • Somebody's Been Carryin' Your Rollin' On • Bon- nie Turner: Love Is A Gamble • Old Brother Jack • Tot Randolph: Blues Train • Johnny O'Neal: Ugly Woman (Peg Leg Baby) • Dead Letter Blues • Johnny's Dream • Little Milton: Beggin' My Baby • Somebody Told Me • I Love My Baby • Houston Boines: Carry My Business On • Standing In The Courthouse Crying • Little Milton: If You Love Me • Alone And Blue • She's My Queen • Re-Beep (previously issued as Re-Beat) • Lookin' For My Baby • Rode That Train (Lookin' For My Baby) • Homesick For My Baby • Earl Hooker: Steel Guitar Rag • Blue Guitar • The Drive • Move On Down The Line • The Hucklebuck • Boyd Gilmore: Believe I'll Settle Down • Pinetop Perkins: Pinetop's Boogie Woogie • Sammy Lewis/Willie Johnson Combo: Gonna Leave You Baby • I Feel So Worried (1) • I Feel So Worried (2) • So Long Baby Goodbye CD 7: RED HOT RHYTHM Billy Love: Gee I Wish • The News Is All Around Town • Hey Now • Way After Midnight • Hart's Bread Boogie • Little Junior’s Blue Flames: Sittin' At The Bar • Sittin' At The Window • Sittin' Drinkin' And Thinkin' • Raymond Hill: The Snuggle • Bourbon Street Jump • Billy 'The Kid' Emerson: Shim Sham Shimmy • When It Rains It Pours • Move Baby Move • Red Hot • Satisfied • Something For Nothing • Little Fine Healthy Thing • Charley Booker: Baby I'm Coming Home • Walked All Night • Eddie Snow: Don't Dog Me Around • Mean Mean Woman • Stay With Me Baby • Who's Been Drinking My Wine? • Sorry Little Baby • Got To Put You Down • Bring Your Love Back Home • Ain't That Right • Rosco Gordon: That's What You Do To Me • I Found A New Love • I'm Gonna Shake It • Let's Get High • Guitar Red: Go Ahead On • Baby Please Don't Go

CD 8: THERE IS LOVE IN YOU Prisonaires: Just Walking In The Rain • A Prisoner's Prayer • Don't Say Tomorrow • There Is Love In You • The Five Tinos: Gonna Have To Let You Be • Don't Do That • Sitting By My Window • Rosco Gordon: New Orleans • Shoobie Oobie • Ed Kirby: Mean Old Gin • Blue Nights • Big Lucky Carter: Gonna Break That Lock • Hunky Dory: IWant My Baby Back • Baby Don't Leave Me • IWonder Why • This Misery • The Brewsteraires: Where Shall I Be (When That First Trumpet Sounds) • (The Lord Gave Me) Wings For MySoul • The Southern Jubilees: There's A Man In Jerusalem • Forgive Me Lord • He Never Left Me Alone • Blessed Be The Name • Prisonaires: Softly And Tenderly • My God Is Real • The Jones Brothers: Amazing Grace • Gospel Train • Look To Jesus • Every Night • Brother R. Russell & The Jones Brothers Qt.: I'm Sealed • Jones Brothers Quartet:Every Night (2) • Hunky Dory: A Lady Called Mother (previously issued as I'd Like To Be There) • Workin' On A Building

CD 9: OUT-TAKES Handy Jackson: (Have You Ever Had) Trouble? (2) • Billy Love: You're Gonna Cry • 'Sleepy' John Estes: Runnin' Around (2) • Elven Parr's In The Groove Boys: Skin And Bones Woman (2) • Walter Horton: Little Walter's Boogie (2) • Henry Hill with Doctor Ross: That Ain't Right (2) • Joe HillLouis: She May Be Yours (But She Comes To See Me Sometime) (3) • Honeyboy Edwards: Sweet Home Chicago (2) • 'Little Walker': Off The Wall (2) • Boyd Gilmore: Believe I'll Settle Down (2) • Johnny O'Neal: Ugly Woman (2) • Dead Letter Blues (2) • Johnny's Dream (2) • Hot Shot Love: Wolf Call Boogie (2) • Billy Love: WayAfter Midnight (2) • Gee I Wish (2) • The News Is All Around Town (2) • Little Milton: Rode That Train/Lookin' For My Baby (3) • Sammy Lewis/ Willie Johnson Combo: IFeel So Worried (3) • So Long Baby Goodbye (2) • Doctor Ross: Left Job Boogie • Charlie Booker: Walked All Night (2) •BabyI'm Coming Home (2) • Ike Turner with Tommy Hodge: (I Know) You Don't Love Me (previously issued as Get It Over Babe) •Down & Out (aka How Long Will It Last) • You Ain't The One • Matchbox (aka I'm Gonna Forget About You) • Pat Hare: Chea- ting And Lying Blues (aka I'm Gonna Murder My Baby)

CD 10: REVELATIONS Unknown Gospel Group: John The Revelator • Sam Phillips: Tree Of Life (Advertising spot) • Unknown Gospel Group: IAmBound For Canaan Land • Lost John Hunter & his Blind Bats: Play The Game Baby • J.C. Cole: Ida Mae • South Side Blues • Move Me No More • No Right Blues (Deep Blue Sea Blues) • Willie Carr: Outside Friend • The Four Cruisers: Beale St. Shuffle • Joseph Dobbin & The Four Cruisers: On Account Of You • Unknown Artist: Juicehead • V O Baby • Shy Guy Douglas: Detroit Arrow Blues • Work With Her Boy • Hip Shakin' Mama (Shy Guy's Back In Town) • Unknown Vocal Group: Oh Baby • Evangelist Gospel Singers Of Alabama: Lord Stop The War • Leaning On The Lord • Walk In The Light • Never Grow Old • Spiritual Stars: I'll Search Hea- ven • Good Religion

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